1922: 5th/6th Dragoons formed by amalgamation of 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) and The Inniskillings (6th Dragoons)

1927: 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards

1935: 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards

1939: transferred to Royal Armoured Corps

1992: amalgamated with 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards to form The Royal Dragoon Guards.

Deployment

1922.10.17 5th/6th Dragoons
formed at Cairo by amalgamation of 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's), and The Inniskillings (6th Dragoons)
1922.10 Egypt: Cairo
1922 Palestine
1923 India: Risalpur
1927.05 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
1928 England: York
1930 Aldershot 1 Cav Bde
1934 Colchester 4 Div
1935.06.03 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
1935.06 Colchester 4 Div
1938 mechanised
1939.09 France & Belgium recce regt, 4 Inf Div
1940.03 France & Belgium 2nd Armd Recce Bde
1940.06 UK 3 Motor MG Bde
1940.12 UK 28 Armd Bde
1944.07 NW Europe 22 Armd Bde
1945.05 Germany
1950 Germany: Paderborn 33 Armd Bde
1951.12 Korea 1 Commonwealth Div
1953.01 Egypt
1954.08 England: Catterick
1957.03 Germany BAOR
1962.11 England: Tidworth 3 Div
1964.12 Aden (Sqn)
Bahrein (Sqn)
Hong Kong (Sqn) (sqns in Aden and Bahrein alternated)
1965.12 Libya
1966 Cyprus (A Sqn) UN (recce)
1968 England: Weeton Camp
1969? Germany: Münster BAOR (recce)
1974.12 England: Catterick
1976.05 Germany: Paderborn 12 Bde, 2 Armd Div
1981.04 (Northern Ireland)
1981.08 Germany: Paderborn 12 Bde, 2 Armd Div
1984 England: Tidworth
1986.11 Germany: Paderborn
1992.07.01 amalgamated with 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, to form The Royal Dragoon Guards

[combined battle honours of 5th Dragoon Guards, and 6th Dragoons, with the following emblazoned:1]
Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Warburg, Beaumont, Willems, Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse, Peninsula, Waterloo, Balaklava, Sevastopol, Defence of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902

The Great War: Mons, Le Cateau, Marne 1914, Messines 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Somme 1916 '18, Cambrai 1917 '18, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Pursuit to Mons

[plus:]

The Second World War: Withdrawal to Escaut, St. Omer-La Bassée, Dunkirk 1940, Mont Pincon, St. Pierre La Vielle, Lisieux, Risle Crossing, Lower Maas, Roer, Ibbenburren, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45

The Hook 1952, Korea 1951-52

1. combined list first issued ca. 1935.

 

The Royal Dragoon Guards Museum, York (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)